Here are a some black & white photos I took as a kid with my 120 roll camera on a visit to Heathrow around the mid sixties, I think.
Tridents, Vanguards, VC-10s, 990s sigh......

Oh dear - I've just had what Clarkson calls a 'trouser moment'!

Superbly nostalgic piccies - and not a single yellow road-diggers jacket in sight!

I'll bet the owner of the Ford (is it a Zephyr, Zodiac or Consul?) thought he had a cool set of wheels!

No chainlink, barbed wire or machine pistols either. Why, those people on the roof could be up to anything .
Gone forever alas

Fantastic PT, thank you very much!

Just a couple of years before my time, but still some great pics / memories.

Surely the Iberia CV990 was leased from Spantax - it looks like their logo on the lower forward fuselage. I cannot recall ever having picked up on Iberia using 990s.

Have you got any more pic to put up? I'm sure we'd love to see 'em!

Andrew

The MEA VC10 puts it at about 1967 or 68, I think.

Hello and thank you for these beautiful pictures. It remember me old TV series from the 7o's like «the Saint» and «Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir» !
Caravelle's with their triangle windows and so...

Skyservice in YQB next week...

Didja get the reggie of that DC4/6 though ?

Didja, didja ?

Wonderful! VC10s, Carvelles, Tridents, Coronados....Reminds me of Ringway in me yoof.

SSD

Speechless Two!

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via refuelling stops at - if I remember correctly - Kuwait, Colombo and Bombay.

And what about that wonderful little island of Gan? Another popular tech-stop!
EVen though I laboured at the northern end of the BRITISH EAGLE line (Liddypool) I remember Heathrow with fond memories, especially the staff parties! MAGIC !

Totally mind-blowing. Thanks indeed for all those. There are many more "Heathrow Nostalgia" pics available on the Air Britain site. Try this:
http://www.abpic.co.uk/results.php?q...pular&limit=50

You have to quickly scroll through the A380s and other jets but there are some real gems in there.

A few of my very old Heathrow snaps are among the pics at:
http://www.brendan-mccartney.fotopic.net/c748822.html

Nice to see some old photos appearing. If only we could turn back the clocks by forty years or so when aircraft were aircraft and you could go down the pub with the CAA inspectors and they would buy the first round of drinks.

No it is not a pipe dream. The jobs were done without agro and unions involved and everyone had a satisfying day at work. Stuff pollution, bring back the Convair 880 and 990, the real smokies, and the sound of all radials and Darts and Tynes.

Well that the dream finished (Modern Stuff Boring)

GBALU53.. I'd drink to that. I was at an ATC party once and a couple of aircrew arrived... The Captain hollered: "Where's the ^&*($£ who sent us round this evening?" When the culprit appeared he was shaken warmly about the throat accompaned by threats of more extreme violence if it happened again..... then they repaired to the bar and got smashed together!! Much better than all the form-filling... but those days are gone for ever.

Cars in Argo's Pix
I like the 'planes as much as I like the cars, regularly flew in the Swissair Coronado and Caravelle to visit the in-laws in Geneva.
The cars are a '66 Vauxhall Victor, a Ford Anglia van of similar vintage and a 1955 Ford Zephyr 6.

Fantastic nostalgic photos

The Swissair Caravelle reminded me of how business travel used to be, no club class proper First Class in those times. And I think I spotted a Pan Am 707 taxiing out, now there was a top notch airline, many happy hours across the pond on various Clippers.

You mean the one way across by Hunting's hangers? Great pictures those were the days.

My apologies Argonautical, for some reason (a lack of a retentive memory most likely!) I thought Paper Tiger had posted the pics!

Couple of other aeroplanes parked on the far side in the T1 shots - there used to be an Air India hangar there in the 70s as I recall, now the new VAEL one. Looks like one is a British Eagle Britannia. Also is there an HS125 parked to the left of the Hunting hangar in the first KLM Electra pic? If so must have been one of the earliest based there.

FWIW, !!!!!!!!!!!!!! has some old LHR photos, too. I had a bit of a trawl to find the following.

One from the 1950s
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0080474/L/

A few from the 1960s
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0794108/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0794107/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0503402/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0080473/L/

And rather more from the 1970s
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0722598/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0540873/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0540771/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0489714/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0483765/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0414328/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0398459/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0362953/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0344545/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0342137/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0340992/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0339891/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0337704/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0333974/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0316106/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0303060/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0298723/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0295153/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0287673/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0286298/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0282438/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0264802/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0239644/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0136627/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0067561/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0067560/L/
http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0066851/L/

(Change the L to M in each URL if you're operating on a slow connection.)

I agree with that. Can you see the registration on the end of the fuselage below the rudder on the original photo perhaps? It will be either 9G-AGP or OD-AFA. If it is OD-AFA then the photo was most likely taken in 1968.

Aha ! I spy the Duke's Pants.